voted for the second one i'm still probablly going to keep using Tight+Zip+JPEG for all the cases above, though why not? it feels as fast as ZRLE 256 colors. loving it so bad, no matter what people say.

I personally can't stand anything less than 256 colors unless I am truly convinced the bandwidth is not there.

I do not know how the color palette works when it goes down to 64 colors but I believe there could be a better way to do 64 colors. It seems to me like UVNC is changing the colors which does not make sense. Couldn't the program figure out a better 64 color palette? What limitations are we running up against?

I prefer 256 colors even for SLOW connections.
If you use AUTO and the colors change because the bandwidth algorithm thinks your line speed goes up or down this is irritating.
I imagine that normal users may think that there is something wrong because it's not obvious why the colors suddenly "wash out".